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Alison Lumsden,
Kirsty Archer-Thompson,
Isabella Fausti,
Florin Nedelea,
and
Ainsley McIntosh
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- The work and legacy of Walter Scott
- Scott as a collector
- Relationship between Scott’s home at Abbotsford and storytelling
- Connections between Scott’s work and landscape, history and nationhood
- Curating Scott’s legacy
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